DICE, chapter 172 (reader)

I was originally thinking of just making a Happy Christmas post, but Fábio decided you were very good leeches of society this year, so…

DICE 172

That being said, we hope you all enjoy the end of year break and wish everyone all the best for 2017.

The original is here (give the author a good end of year by visiting it to show your appreciation) and the latest official English release by LINE is here.

DICE, chapter 171 (reader)

Well, here it is!

DICE 171

Again a busy week for Fábio, who only managed to do some redraws, but we had the surprise rescue from Sarrymast, who had helped a little way back in the past. He completed the chapter in record time, so extend your appreciation to him! (May I call your attention to the amazing redraw of the "Stop!" yell in this chapter).

The original is here (visit it to show your support for the author) and the latest official English translation by LINE is here.

Flying in the Darkness, Chapter 04 (Batoto)

Here it is!

Flying in the Darkness 04

Our Team 02 keeps going strong!

DICE 171 is still in redrawing hell, though progress has been made.

DICE, chapter 170 (reader)

Here it is:

DICE 170

The original is here (never forget to show the author your appreciation and support by visiting it), and the latest official English version by LINE is here.

Fábio was a little busy this week, so apart from a couple of redraws he managed to do, Jun took the brunt of the speedline-fest this chapter was.

Chapter 171 is 68 pages long and has a cartload of redraws, the vast majority of which are very hard, some high up there in our gallery of redrawing horrors. So don't expect it very soon.

DICE, chapters 168 and 169 (reader)

And here they are:

DICE 168

DICE 169

The originals are here and here (visit them to give the author your appreciation) and the latest English official version by LINE should be here.

Email Notification Back!

It's all good now :D
Notifications aren't instant (the software checks every 6 hours for new posts)
People who were on the subscription list before will need to resubscribe.
The url change messed things up, so the user list is ded.

DICE, chapter 167 (reader)

Whew, one release on time and without disruptions in the pipeline:

DICE 167

Here is the original (visit it and support the author) and here is LINE's latest English official release.

Email Notifications Broken

Currently under repair. I'm awful with computers, so it might take a while. I can't even get my printer to work most the time.

Flying in the darkness, chapter 03 (Batoto)

Dicescans team 02 is back!

Flying in the darkness 03

Since I'm hopeless at removing the white frames between pictures, I've decided to upload the chapter to Batoto so you can read it there. If Jin feels like it, she can upload the pics here later and work her magic to remove white frames.

DICE, chapter 166 (reader)

And thanks to the shortest, easiest to redraw chapter we have in memory, we're back in sync with Korea:

DICE 166

(Except for the paywalled chapters, but nothing we can do about that.)

Here is the original (visiting it shows your appreciation for the author) and here is LINE's latest English official release.

DICE, chapter 165 (reader)

And here it is!

DICE 165

The original is here (visit it to support the author) and the latest English official release by LINE is here.

Chapter 166 is even shorter than this one. We have a change of catching up, but no promises.

DICE, chapter 164 (reader)

First, while reading take a good look at the chapter:

DICE 164

Then, go to the original Korean release, this time not only to support the author but to see the kind of shit our redrawers had to edit this time.

This chapter was among the longest we had to do so far. It also had about three dozen redraws, most of them hard or nightmarish.

Fábio had some real life matters that kept him from starting early on the chapter. However, thanks to his diligent efforts plus the help of our back-up Slav, plus the timely contribution of Camélia from Doragon Scanlations, and a small contribution I did myself, we conquered the chapter.

We're still behind by two chapters. Chapter 165, which is shorter and already typeset, is nearly as hard as this one, but some serious work has been done on it and it's slowly getting ready. As of this writing, it's five redraws from completion.

Again, I salute you heartless leeches of society for not giving in to your cravings to pester us for timetables. Just a couple of desperate people stalked me in my other scanlation group, but they were polite and understanding. Believe us, we want to get these chapters out as quickly as possible.

The latest English official release by LINE is here.

Status update

Well, we do have an update page that I keep zealously, but not everyone bothers to check that, so…

Chapters 164 and 165 are in redrawing hell. In the case of 164, the hell is quite literal. They are both translated and typeset, though.

In the best case scenario, we might even catch up. But don't hold your breath, these chapters are terrible and at this moment, we have two back-ups working on 164.

Hang in there.

Update: chapter 164 is six pages from completion, still on the redrawing war. Chapter 165 needs nine more done. Thanks to all the back-ups who have helped so far!

DICE, chapter 163 (reader)

Here it is!

DICE 163

This chapter was translated by Likcoras, our newest back-up! Old fans of the series may remember his name among the translators who did it with Silent Sky. We were lucky to get him, this week Jin's overwhelmed with real life and so are our usual back-ups. A warm welcome to him!

The original is here (support the author by visiting it and giving it a "like" if you can). And LINE's latest official English release is here.

DICE, chapter 162 (reader)

Here it is!

DICE 162

We haven't caught up quite yet, but will keep trying. At least we don't have a backlog…

The original is here (visit it, scroll it down and if you can, show your appreciation to support the author). The latest English official release by LINE is here.

DICE, chapter 161 (reader)

Almost caught up!

DICE 161

That Fábio has already started on 162 is thanks to Slav and Goldsonic, who did a sizeable part of the redraws in this chapter.

The original is here (go see for yourself and support the author), and the latest English official release by LINE is here.

DICE, chapter 160 (reader)

Here it is:

DICE 160

Pause and appreciate Fábio's spectacular redraw of the big "ME?!!" on this chapter. The impact is bigger if you take a look at the original, here. (You should do it to support the author, anyway.) As for the latest official English release by LINE, it's here.

We also extend our thanks to the back-ups who rose to our call and helped on some pages of this chapter, and whom we hope will be able to help us in the future, too!

DICE, chapters 158 and 159 (reader)

And here they are, no need to hang yourselves!

DICE 158

DICE 159

The originals are here and here. Visit them, scroll down and if you know how to, give them your liking to support the author. The latest English official release by LINE is here.

Lots of people to thank this time. Jay, our always dependable back-up translator, covered for Jin for chapter 159. Two of our partners for the Spanish DICE joint, Camelia and Akiyama Shinichi, relieved Fábio from part of the redraws on chapter 158.

Come to think of it, I have to salute you heartless leeches of society, too. You have resisted the abstinence stoically. We received no complaints, no one ranted in the comments, we were even lucky not to see any speedscans in the meantime to kill the mood. Our sincere gratitude to all. We'll keep doing our best.

Jin and Fábio will be back for 160 and onwards, but I've posted an ad asking for more back-up redrawers so we can minimise the risk of perfect storms like this one in the near future.

Delay notice (chapter 158)

Well, it's pretty obvious for everyone, but always worth announcing.

Jin's buried in real life this week. She began the script, but has since been unable to finish it. Fábio has been busy this week, too, but he has already begun redrawing it. Unfortunately, Blue Fairy speaks quite a lot this chapter, so it's a tough one.

Please hang on there, we'll deploy countermeasures and get the chapter out as soon as we can.

Update: the chapter is translated and typeset, but redrawing will take a while longer.

Flying in the darkness, chapter 02

Yay! We have a complete team!

A warm welcome to Joseph, our new editor, who will partner up with Soyoung for this short series.

Thanks to everyone else to applied! Recruitment for this series is, as of now, closed.

As before, Jin will drop by eventually to remove the white frames (I'm still useless for that). You can find the chapter in Batoto as well.

Flying in the Darkness, chapter 01

SURPRISE!!

We have a new project!

The backstory is very interesting (in my opinion). A couple of weeks ago, I was approached by Soyoung, the translator, who told me she wanted to help out with DICE. I told her we already had Jay as our back-up translator, but would gladly contact her in case of need. She then said out of the blue: "Well then, how about I help with something else?"

I thought "Well, why not?" Jin greenlighted it and after a brief search for a project no one is doing, we found this one in Foxtoon. It's only 25 or so chapters long and we don't know much about it yet, but Soyoung will be translating and Jin cleaning it… if we find a redrawer and a typesetter (or someone who does both things). This series is much easier than DICE, so if you are interested, read the announcement in the end of the chapter and contact me!

By the way, this series will be released here and at Batoto, but not in the Death Toll Reader as there's no need.

Enjoy! And congrats on your first scanlation, Soyoung!

DICE, chapter 157 (reader)

First, the chapter:

DICE 157

Then, the reminder: please visit the original to support the author (I hear it's even better if you scroll down to the end and give it your liking). You may also visit the latest English official release by Naver.

Then, the announcement: we'll go back to our more relaxed release pace. In other words, this week's chapter may well become the new normal, same as the old normal before we started doing same-day and same-weekend releases. As we hadn't really updated our policy of same-week releases, this shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.

Of course, early releases may happen again as freebies.

DICE, chapter 156 (reader)

Here's the chapter:

DICE 156

You can read the original here (visiting it and giving it a high score help the author a good deal), and the latest official English release by LINE is here.

DICE, chapter 155 (reader)

Okay, here it is!

DICE 155

Fortunately, this chapter wasn't terribly hard, so Fábio and Jun were able to redraw it in the past 24 hours. (Less than that, actually, but I only had time to release now.)

The original is here (visiting it is caring for the author), and the latest chapter in the English official version by LINE is here.

Delay notice for chapter 155

Well, technically not a delay according to our same-week semi-policy, but a "delay" relative to the pace of the past few weeks of same-day or same-weekend releases.

The chapter only needs redrawing, all else is done. Jun and Marx are busy in real life, and Fábio is still on his trip until the 23rd. (And after he comes back, returning from a trip takes some settling down, so I don't expect his immediate re-engagement in scanlation work. Real life always first!)

Yes, even with two standing redrawers and one back-up, this kind of thing still happens.

So, you heartless leeches of society, rest assured that we'll do our best to get a timely release.

Edit (Thursday evening): Fábio is back in business and has already redrawn much of the chapter. Jun has also sent word that she will help tomorrow. Stay tuned for a possible Friday release. (No promises, though.)

DICE, chapter 154 (reader)

And here it is!

DICE 154

The chapter wasn't even that easy, but compared to the previous ones, it was a walk in the park. Mercifully that damn doll kept her … mouth shut for most of the chapter.

The original is here, and you ought to visit it to support the author. And last time I checked, the ragestorm was still strong on the latest English official release here.

Dicescans is two years old!! \o/

… and it more or less coincides with our 100th chapter of DICE a few weeks ago, too!

The second year was less eventful than the first, and that's a good thing. We introduced Disqus moderation in the comments, and attentive readers will have noticed a certain nuisance in the past month or so, but never mind that.

Compared to the first year, when we had to rely on all offers of helping hands - and some help offered after dedicated grovelling on our part -, this year the operation ran smoothly thanks to the assistance of more regular back-ups. Those include our good friends Jun, our back-up redrawer, and Jay, our back-up translator, both of whom are generous to no end with their skills. And we can't forget the lovely Kaoru, who held the typesetting front bravely while I was travelling.

Also added to the team as a back-up while I was travelling, Marx was at first a cleaner, then revealed herself a superb redrawer and ended up as our fourth regular member. During our recent period of same-day or same-weekend releases, her tag team with Fábio has been pretty much the reason for our success.

(About that, Fábio is on a trip until the 23rd, so there may be delays in the next couple of chapters.)

We should also mention visitors whose dedication to DICE led them to make unexpectedly creative contributions, like our good friend Michele, who designed a 3D-printing version of the Golden Die; Demotivator, who built up on my initial effort to make a Wikia and developed it into a tremendous page; and Slav Kolev, who turned the stills of the collapsing pile of Dice in the end of chapters into a neat animated GIF.

Our comment section also grew. In part due to the downright heated somewhat acrimonious but ultimately interesting discussions I've had with Trunks, Whatever, Void User and others, but also due to the continued interest and thoughtful contributions of many other readers, old and new. It's a fair assessment to say that this comment section has become (and I read most, if not all the others) one of the best places to discuss DICE in public.

Finally, it was also a year of hard work. The author has grown ambitious and recent chapters have featured complex art and more pages per episode. I can say that when season 03 ends, I will enjoy the break!

And enough of my tedious ravings. First and foremost, a round of cheers for another great year to our founder and leader, who makes Dicescans possible, our one and only Jin!!!

DICE, chapter 153 (reader)

Whew!

DICE 153

This chapter was unspeakable hell to redraw and one of the hardest I've had to typeset. Fortunately, typesetting helped redrawing, so Jun was able to make the miracle happen and get it done today after Marx' protracted battle against the first (untypeset) pages yesterday. Jun also got the nice stripe effects on some words you will see in this chapter.

Don't forget that this chapter has BGM, which I loaded in the Soundcloud widget at the right of this page.

Finally, remember to visit the author's original to support him (even though he has been making life really hard for us these times :P ). Here is the latest English official release by LINE. (This Wednesday the readers there who refuse to read scanlations for whatever reason are going to find out Eunju becomes an A-Ranker! You can't miss that, the rage storm promises to be epic! \o/ )

153 will come late

Although we have never changed our previous commitment to mid-to-late week releases, we have been doing same-day or same-weekend releases for a while now.

It's perfectly understandable if you got used to that, so I think you deserve to know that there's a good chance that this time it will be different. Chapter 153 is even harder than 152, because Blue Fairy spends a lot of time speaking. Fábio is also unavailable today due to real life matters, so as of now Marx is fighting the beast all on her own. The chapter is translated and cleaned, and I'll typeset it straight away, but it will take a while to get it redrawn. Stay tuned.

On the up side, this is a BGM chapter!

DICE, chapter 152 (reader)

Once you read the chapter you will understand why it took us a day to do it:

DICE 152

You should visit the original, if only to have an idea of what our team of redrawers had to do this time. You may also have a laugh at the comment section on the latest English official chapter, as the readers there are about to be shocked, shocked! by the turn of events in the end of the War Quest.

This time the author really threw the kitchen sink at us. I felt bad for the redrawers when I was cleaning it. Even our Grand Sorcerer, Fábio, who normally eats DICE redraws for breakfast, said bluntly: "This chapter is no joke."

However, Fábio and Marx, with a final push from our all-so-dependable Jun, were able to conquer the beast at last. A note of thanks goes to my good friend and scanlation mentor figure Yothen, who helped me figure out the Outer Glow parameters for the lines spoken by a character in this chapter.

DICE, chapter 151 (reader)

Jin and later I had some entanglements today, so this is coming out a little later than usual:

DICE 151

Here is the original (visit it to support the author), and here is the latest official English release by LINE.

DICE, chapter 150 (reader)

Here it is!

DICE 150

There was no room for credits this time, but the cheers go to Jin, who translated it while moving around; and to Fábio, who as usual did master redraws like they were nothing!

Here is the original (visit it to support the author), and here is the latest official English release by LINE.

DICE, chapter 149 (reader)

Here it is!

DICE 149

This week Marx and Fábio were both entangled in real life matters, so it's thanks to our good friend Jun that this chapters is here! A round of applause to her, and pause to appreciate her beautiful chibi Che-Hyun in the credits, a very nice imitation of Yun Hyun-Suk's style!

Here is the original (to support the author), and here is the the latest official English release by LINE.

DICE, chapter 148 (reader)

Here it is:

DICE 148

Here is the original (visit it and support the author), and here is the latest English official release by LINE.

Ah, yes, Jin left this rare comment in the script:

"… Aaand X appears and spoils what is likely to be Suksoon’s only happy moment."

DICE, chapter 147 (reader)

Here it is!

DICE 147

The original is here (for supporting the author) and LINE's latest English official release, here (to appease Naver).

DICE, chapter 146 (reader)

Here it is:

DICE 146

Here is the original, and here is LINE's latest official English release.

Edit: Thanks to our good friend Jun, the missing redraw on page 36 is now done and uploaded.

DICE, chapter 145 (reader)

OK, here it is!

DICE 145

This is the original (visiting it is the best way to support the author and relieve any guilt for reading scanlations), and this is the latest LINE official English release (for residual guilt relief).

Incidentally, I don't know if it is true, but someone has said that the pile of Dice that marks the end of the chapter collapsed during the first two seasons, and is now slowly rebuilding. If it is true, this suggests that the series will end after four seasons, and that it could be possible to build a short film (about five seconds so far) by combining all the chapter ends into one stream. I wonder if anyone has tried that…

DICE, chapter 144 (reader)

Here it is, much later than we planned originally:

DICE 144

Jin is overwhelmed by real life this week. I'm sure you heartless leeches of society understand. Thus, our life-saver Jay supplied us with his very polished translation!

We'll get our game together, okay?

Here is the original, and here is LINE's latest official release.

DICE, chapter 143 (reader)

This time there was no room for credits in the last page, but this chapter was out thanks to the combined efforts of Jin, Marx, Fábio and Kaoru, who stepped in my place to typeset while I was entangled in real life. So, three cheers to them!

DICE 143

Chapter 143

(This time it's my fault the chapter is going up a little later.)

Chapter 143 will be below the break for now, and up on the reader later.

As always, you can find the original chapter on Naver, and view Line's official release here.

DICE, chapter 142 (reader)

Here it is!

DICE 142

(It would have been here sooner, if I hadn't jumbled the raws during pre-cleaning…)

Here is the original - visiting it supports the author, as you know. And here is LINE's latest official English release.

DICE Ch. 141

Chapter 141 will be posted underneath the break for now, we'll move it to normal reader later on.

Please help Hyunseok Yun continue to make this amazing story, and visit the original chapter here. As usual, the latest LINE update is here, which you should check out to help promote the webcomic community.

Note: Jin's brother (me) is uploading this chapter as Jin is busy right now, so some of the panels are messed up.

DICE, chapter 141 (reader)

Here it is:

DICE 141

Here is the original, and here is LINE's latest official English release.

DICE, chapter 140 (reader)

And here it is:

DICE 140

The original is here, and LINE's latest official English release is here.

DICE, chapter 139 (reader)

Well, here it is:

DICE 139

Here is the original, and here is LINE's latest official English release.

BGM for Ch. 139

I'm still working on getting the background music (BGM) that accompanies DICE Ch. 139 right now for mobile users. Considering I still haven't fixed the white border issue for mobile.... err... things don't look so bright and fuzzy.

For people accessing Dicescans on a computer, press the play button for the SoundCloud widget on the right hand side of the bar.

If your browser isn't updated (cough cough or if you use Internet Explorer cough), the widget may not show up or autoplay.

I have no idea why.

If that's the case, you can always access the BGM here (picosong- I don't think it'll infect you with viruses) or here (Dropbox- yup, no viruses).

EDIT: Nothing works for Internet Explorer....download Chrome eh?

Chapter updates have been so late because I was busy with school-- everyone else is incredibly productive. Tsk tsk, I know.

Long time no see
Jin

Delay notice (chapter 139)

Well, it's obvious by now, but I thought you'd like a status report.

The chapter is translated and redrawn, but needs typesetting. We'll do our best to sort things out as soon as possible.

DICE, chapter 138 (reader)

Here it is, a little later than usual:

DICE 138

This is the original (visit it and make one manhwaga happy). And this is the latest official English release by LINE.

DICE, chapter 137 (reader)

I haven't found a person to upload the pages to the reader while I am away. Originally, I had asked Marx to release the chapters just here in the blog, but as my trip progresses I've found that I can make a few minutes every week to release myself:

DICE 137

Here is the original (visit it to support the author), and here is the latest official English release by LINE.

DICE, chapter 136 (reader)

The place I'm going to visit doesn't open early, so I had some time this morning:

DICE 136

This is the original (the author is much obliged to your visiting it to support him), and this is the latest English official release.

DICE, chapter 135 (reader)

And here it is!

DICE 135

I'll clean chapter 136, but it's unlikely that Jin, given her busy real life schedule these days, will have time to translate it before I leave for my trip on Tuesday, so from next chapter I leave you to the care of Kaoru and after that Marx, too. I won't be completely disconnected, though: you may see me in comment sections here for the next couple of months.

This is the original; click it, and scroll it down to the end for good measure. And this is the latest English official release by LINE (you can tell from the left-aligned bubbles).

DICE, chapter 134 (reader)

Thanks to diligent efforts of the entire team (including Marx, who was revealed to us as fine redrawer), we managed to reduce the delay!

DICE 134

Here is the original, to be visited by all of you heartless leeches of society so the author can be duly acknowledged. And this is the latest official JPEG/Anime-Ace-for-everything routine by LINE.

Delay notice (chapter 134)

Translation, redrawing and typesetting have already begun, but I won't have time to typeset the chapter to completion until at least tomorrow afternoon. And of course, Jin and Fábio could face delays, too. C'est la vie.

Edit: the chapter is now translated and typeset. Fábio normally doesn't have time to redraw on weekends, but sometimes he can on Sundays. Stay tuned.

DICE, chapter 133 (reader)

Here it is, in the nick of time!

DICE 133

She is back! \o/

Here is the original, which you should visit, and for good measure scroll down to the end once to support the author. And here is the latest official release by LINE.

DICE, chapter 132 (reader)

Here it is, a little late 'cause real life got in the way:

DICE 132

Say welcome to our new cleaner Marx, who will pair up with Kaoru while I am away on my trip!

Here is the Naver original you should visit, and here is the latest English official release by LINE.

DICE, chapter 131 (reader)

Yeah, it came a little late, but the delay was so small that I didn't bother to write an advance notice this time:

DICE 131

Here is the original, which you should visit to support the author. And here is the latest official English release by LINE.

Calling off the cleaner recruitment

At the same time I am immensely happy with all the messages we have been getting from people volunteering to help cleaning DICE while I am travelling, it is a bit sad to have to write polite refusals.

I say that because we have already found our replacement cleaner. I'll do the introduction when we release chapter 132 (because 131 I have cleaned myself).

Therefore, I'm calling off the cleaner recruitment.

However, just as we did with the translation applicants last year, those who haven't been taken up will remain in our list of lifesavers in case we need help again. One of the reasons we have been able to sustain mostly weekly releases for more than a year is thanks to the timely help of people like Aia-chan, Choo Choo Cat, Jun, Jay and many others who have lent their skills and free time in our aid.

My apologies to the latest applicants for not posting this right when I filled the position. Because relatively few people read our releases via the blog (most use manga aggregators), I thought it would be more effective to wait to call off the recruitment by announcing it with our next release and didn't bother to do it here.

Now we have both a cleaner and a typesetter, we should be fine for the period of my trip. My only Drudger duty that isn't covered is proofreading, but that's not something that will cause the operation to stop. Jin writes very well and I normally just make some tweaks here and there. If we change our minds, we may post an ad for a proofreader later.

DICE, chapter 130 (reader)

Earlier than expected!

DICE 130

Allow me to introduce the lovely Kaoru, who debuts in Dicescans as the typesetter who will be in my place while I am travelling from April 12. Not only did she typeset the chapter quickly and skillfully, she was the one who chose the very cool font we used for the written note in this chapter. A warm welcome from all the heartless leeches of society, please!

But we still need a cleaner to take over from me! Actually, the pre-cleaning is the hardest part. I'm willing to coach anyone who already knows how to use the following Photoshop Tools: Brush, Clone Stamp, Fill + Content Aware, Polygonal Lasso, Layer via Copy, Guides and the Eyedropper. It sounds like a lot, but it's not, all of them are very simple and straightforward. You should also know how to change Canvas Size.

This is the original, which you will visit to support the author. And this is the latest official English release by LINE.

Delay due to training

Just so you know… chapter 130 was translated yesterday, but is unlikely to come out before tomorrow.

The reason is that I am coaching a typesetter and she will do this chapter under my supervision.

I hope you understand. The slight delay now will be compensated seven times over when I go on my trip and we don't have to go on hiatus due to the lack of a substitute.

DICE, chapter 129 (reader)

If I had been able to leave for an appointment half an hour later, this chapter would have been released five hours ago, 'cause Fábio finished redrawing it in record time!

DICE 129

This time, due to space constraints, I was only able to run the typesetter recruitment ad and couldn't add credits, but you all know that Jin, Fábio and yours truly did this, right?

(Don't get used to early week releases. Freebies, remember?)

Ah, yes, one more thing: I wonder how many of you will take notice of the major plot development in this chapter. You can call it an Easter Egg by the author, it's well hidden.

Here is the original, which you should visit out of appreciation for the author's hard work; and here is LINE's latest official release.

DICE, chapter 128 (reader)

Here it is, early release! \o/

DICE 128

As far as redrawing is concerned, the author made it tough on Fábio (no surprise there). Next time he will throw the kitchen sink at us if things go on like this, because our peerless redrawer discharged his task wonderfully (again, no surprise there).

I won't promise anything, and we still reserve the right to use the whole week to make our releases, but from now on it is possible that we will be able to make early-week releases a little more often.

As for the Drudger position, we got two candidates for typesetting, which is the toughest part. While testing them, I have designed a typesetting test which all of you can find here. Just send me (don't pester Jin with it) the typeset PSDs bundled in a RAR or ZIP folder (the download link will suffice). The goal of the test is to emulate my typesetting style (or doing it better, I have no claim at perfection), so do your best!

(This is the first typesetting test I design, so I'm sorry if it isn't very user-friendly. In any case, I can perfect it on the go. Also, I have chosen only hard pages, so make sure to strive for the best results you can. I've also included some fonts, but only the ones that are harder to find. If you pass, I'll give you a full fonts folder.)

On unrelated matters, here are the author's original (pay him your respects) and LINE's latest official release.

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DICE, chapter 127 (reader)

Jin is back, and we are on track again!

DICE 127

Here is the original…

… and here is LINE's latest chapter. I've noticed that they save it as JPEG, which means artifacts accumulate during their edition, whereas we change everything to PSD the moment we retrieve the raws and save as PNGs for release. Oh, well, at least they don't resize anymore.

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DICE, chapter 126 (reader)

Thanks to our good friend Jay, who graciously answered our desperate call for help while Jin was sorting out private matters, here it is, to the delight of all heartless leeches of society!

DICE 126

Here is the original by the author. Do pay it a visit.

And here is the latest official release by LINE.

Jin will be back for chapter 127.

Delay notice

I know this is the third consecutive week and these notices will get tedious eventually, but I promised you we would let you know when the chapter was going to come out late, didn't I?

Well, Jin is buried under real life right now. I am awaiting instructions from her whether to mobilise our back-ups to translate the chapter. So hang in there a little longer, please.

All hope is not lost

I have decided to make a short post on something I've just learned while we wait for the next chapter.

Those of you who have bothered to read the comments in the update section are probably aware of a conversation Jin, myself and some visitors had on the likelihood (or lack thereof) of there ever being a DICE animation or K-drama.

There isn't any on the horizon, but… a Noblesse OVA has been released! \o/

I don't read Noblesse, but it is a webtoon from Naver just like DICE. The OVA came out on Crunchyroll. The production is Japanese, which is also the language of the voice actors in it. The animation is not stellar, but not shoddy either.

Naver, as some of you may know, has a Japanese subsidiary, Hangames Corporation, which owns Comico.jp, the source of many Japanese webtoons, including the super-popular ReLIFE (which is going to be animated soon, but then again, it's Japanese). I can only guess that Naver commissioned this Noblesse OVA from Japanese producers via Hangames. Or something like that, it doesn't really matter how.

This all looks very auspicious. Noblesse is one of Naver's flagships (at least in LINE Webtoons, I don't know about South Korea). So are a few other series - The Gamer, Tower of God, Girls of the wild, as well as DICE. I don't think DICE would be their next choice of an OVA - the story is challenging to animate well, in my opinion, and it begins slow. However, this is a huge development if we consider that very few of us held any hope that our favourite webtoon would ever be animated.

So I leave you now with this sliver of hope that one day we might see Dongtae, Eunju, Taebin, Mio and X talking and moving - albeit in Japanese.

DICE, chapter 125

Here it is!

DICE 125

Now, some disparate matters.

Fábio, for the first time in a long while, actually said he hated his redraws. In other words, this chapter was tough, be sure to appreciate it.

(It was tough on me, too, by the way.)

Be sure to pay your respects to the author and his original.

This is normally where I do my diatribe against LINE and their latest official release. I won't though. They still have no proofreaders, and they typeset speech bubbles with their feet, but I have to tip my hat to their recent work on SFX bubbles: I can learn from them, in fact, I never liked my SFX bubbles much. And what's better, for some miraculous reason, they stopped sizing up the pages! (Maybe they got wind of the contempt poured onto their work here? Or is it too pretentious to think so?) Their version is actually almost decent now, so I'll stop abusing it. (They are still 40 chapters behind, though.)

And you read the recruitment ad. If no Drudger appears to fill in my shoes while I am away, we'll try to think of something, but be prepared for the worst-case scenario of a seven-week hiatus, okay?

One more thing: I rarely comment on my thoughts on the chapter here, but this time… damn, I feel sorry for the teachers. The notion that hundreds of teenagers can not only disobey but assault you without warning or apparent reason must be terrifying.

Delay notice

This time it's my fault. The chapter (125) is translated and 70% typeset, but I'm tired. I might get it out before the next chapter is out, but now I have to sleep. Hang in there, people!

DICE, chapter 124 (reader)

Some fresh blood to all the heartless leeches of society!

DICE 124

Don't forget to do something for the original donor.

And by all means, pay a token visit to the Rice farmers and their latest crop! (Same as the previous post, though.)
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Edit: I'll be posting the chapters here below Splicer's note from now till... April?